Alternative for "Custom thread subscriptions"

[nazar-pc]

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In light of https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-10-custom-thread-subscriptions-are-being-deprecated/ I'd like to request an alternative to be implemented first.

Discussions on issues and pull requests can be lengthy and very tiring to follow. But I do want to know if/when they are resolved! So I'm very frequently only subscribing to when issue or pull request is merged/closed/reopened. I do this with both issues and pull requests.

Not having this capability would be a massive downgrade in usability, I can't even describe how bad that would be!

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[Marcono1234]

There is also another discussion about this: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204563